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Large-scale associations between the leukocyte transcriptome and BOLD responses to speech differ in autism early language outcome subtypes
(2018)Heterogeneity in early language development in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is clinically important and may reflect neurobiologically distinct subtypes. Here, we identified a large-scale association between multiple ...
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Late vision: Processes and epistemic status
(2011)In this paper, I examine the processes that occur in late vision and address the problem of whether late vision should be construed as a properly speaking perceptual stage, or as a thought-like discursive stage. Specifically, ...
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Learning What to Attend to: From the Lab to the Classroom
(2018)Research in adult cognitive neuroscience addresses the bidirectional relationship between attentional selection and prior knowledge gained from learning and experience. This research area is ready for integration with ...
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Lessons from the History of the Concept of the Ray for Teaching Geometrical Optics
(2011)There are two indisputable findings in science education research. First, students go to school with some intuitive beliefs about the natural world and physical phenomena that pose an obstacle to the learning of formal ...
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Levels of physical activity and their relation to health risk behaviours among adolescents in Cyprus
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Lexical retrieval for nouns and verbs in typically developing bilectal children
(2013)Previous evidence shows that nouns are easier for many language users to retrieve than verbs, but scant research has been conducted with children in bilectal environments (where both standard and non-standard forms of a ...
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Linking callous-unemotional traits to instrumental and non-instrumental forms of aggression
(2009)The current study investigated the relation of callous-unemotional (CU) traits to bullying, victimization, and proactive and reactive aggression. We also examined whether CU traits will be more strongly related to groups ...
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Locating targets from imagined perspectives: Comparing labelling with pointing responses
(2007)Participants in two experiments adopted imagined perspectives in a perceptually available spatial scene and located targets by using either verbal terms (labelling) or arrows (pointing). Results revealed that performance ...
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Longitudinal associations between adolescent alcohol use and parents'sources of knowledge
(2010)The aim of this study was to test the direction of effect in the relationship between parents' sources of knowledge (parental monitoring and child disclosure) and adolescent alcohol use. The participants were 215 adolescents ...
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Longitudinal investigation of the relationship between bullying and psychosocial adjustment
(2011)The aim of the present study was to test the direction of effects in the relationship between bullying, victimization, adjustment difficulties, and school achievement. The participants were 238 fifth and sixth-grade children ...
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Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans
(2018)OBJECTIVES: To test whether hearing aid use alters cognitive trajectories in older adults. DESIGN: US population-based longitudinal cohort study SETTING: Data were drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which ...
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A longitudinal study of cyberbullying: Examining risk and protective factors
(2012)The objective of the current study was to examine possible risk (school-bullying and victimization, exposure to media violence, callous-unemotional traits, impulsivity and narcissism) and protective (family, peer and school ...
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Lost for emotion words: What motor and limbic brain activity reveals about autism and semantic theory
(2015)Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are characterised by deficits in understanding and expressing emotions and are frequently accompanied by alexithymia, a difficulty in understanding and expressing emotion words. Words are ...
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Love, commitment, and response to conflict among Cypriot dating couples: Two models, one relationship
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2005)Rusbult's investment model of close relationships posits that commitment is a function of satisfaction with the relationship, investments made, and attractiveness of alternatives. Relationship quality is also affected by ...
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Low-level deficits in beat perception: Neither necessary nor sufficient for explaining developmental dyslexia in a consistent orthography
(2012)This article reports two different studies examining the theoretical account of low-level deficits in beat perception as an alternative explanation of developmental dyslexia in Greek, an orthographically consistent language. ...
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A Machine Learning Approach to Reveal the NeuroPhenotypes of Autisms
(2019)Although much research has been undertaken, the spatial patterns, developmental course, and sexual dimorphism of brain structure associated with autism remains enigmatic. One of the difficulties in investigating differences ...
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Maintaining Mechanisms of Health Anxiety: Current State of Knowledge
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)Severe health anxiety is the preoccupation that one has or will acquire a severe medical disease and impairs individual’s functioning in the psychological, social, professional, and other domains of daily life. This chapter ...
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Making Sense of Immigrant Identity Dialogues
(2010)This commentary builds on the contributions of Ali and Sonn (2010), Hale and Abreu (2010) and on the growing literature in the field to extend the discussion on the development of identity for immigrant and ethnic populations. ...